Character Creation

That makes for a good story. One thing to note is that there was very little interval between getting Sy out of his sensory deprivation tank, and Sy being fully combat capable. That may stick out it may not.

Would/could the frontline extraction and the foiled sabotage plot both be episodes in the same conflict? Cassia’a Term 1 event was escaping an enemy ambush which I always imagined as hostile Aliens but now I wonder if it could have been part of the Aga Lua hostilities.

That would be the same term so it could work.

As for aliens, are there aliens?

I know Weyland-Yutani corporation is represented in Firefly, but I thought the events of firefly were centuries before the discovery if the Xenomorph by the crew of the Nostromo.

Traveller is its own timeline from earth, but yes. There are several Aliens species that have 'empires' bordering the Third Imperium, the primary human empire. There are also a number of human sub-species, Genetic variants that have evolved over the millennia, some have their own areas of space. Most Traveller adventures take place on the fringe between or along the borders of these governments.

I'd like to redo Avi's term 4 event to make the legal troubles a bit more serious, which could provide a reason why Avi ends up shortchanged in mustering out of this career:

Event 8: You are embroiled in legal trouble. Gain one of Advocate 1, Admin 1, Diplomat 1 or Investigate 1, then roll 2D. If you roll 2, you must take the Prisoner career in your next term.

After signing on to the new ship Avi becomes aware that the captain is involved in some shady dealings. He naively goes along with it, but when the ship comes under suspicion by starport authorities he finds himself the target of their investigations. He manages to escape charges by arguing a bureaucratic technicality, gaining Admin 1 in the process, but the reports of the incident that reach the company officers don't read well for Avi and he is not invited to renew his contract at the end of the term.

The soup kitchen idea could fit quite well.

After mustering out of the Navy, Avi has some ship shares but little in the way of liquid assets. He would make use of itinerant travellers' hostels and soup kitchens where they exist to stretch out his dwindling funds between odd jobs and working passages.

After meeting Sy at one of these places, they could talk and learn enough about each other to realise they have some mutual friends in Zeke and Cas.

Edit: It won't maatter if this doesn't connect any of their particular events, I think they both have the maximum two connections already.

For purposes of the connections rule, the two skills I'd like Avi to pick up are:

Broker 1 from connecting with Cas in Avi's Merchant event 10 "A good deal". Avi could have helped broker the deal when the ship called at Cas's homeworld.

Engineer(Life support) 1 from connecting Zeke's Noble event 8: "A conspiracy of nobles" with Avi's Navy event 9: "You foil an attempted crime". I'm thinking Avi's part in it was discovering sabotage of the ship's life support systems in time to abort the jump

The excitement got me to play X4 again. My character is a Terran Secret Agent that goes around to different sectors selling medical supplies.

Below is a character sheet, it's very homemade and simple. But it should help us get everyone's character where you can submit them. You can hit Quote and then copy the sheet and paste in the Character box when you go to create a new character.

Name:
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Dexterity: DM: 0
Endurance: DM: 0
Intellect: DM: 0
Education: DM: 0
Social: DM: 0
Psi: DM: 0

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Allies, Contacts, Rivals
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Debt: Cr
Cash on hand: Cr
Monthly Ship Payments: Cr
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Strength:     DM: 0
Dexterity:    DM: 0
Endurance:    DM: 0
Intellect:    DM: 0
Education:    DM: 0
Social:       DM: 0
Psi:          DM: 0

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Debt: Cr
Cash on hand: Cr
Monthly Ship Payments: Cr
Living Cost: Cr
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[u]Augments[/u]
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Or if geoffenzed will post his template. It's pretty clean and easy to read.

That would be really awesome.

Here is the formatted part of my character sheet if anyone wants to make use of it.

I don't really have a template, I have just used a monospace font and non-breaking spaces to make some of the list items line up neatly. Maybe it would be better to use bbcode tables to do this instead. It is possible the non-breaking spaces could get lost when you try to quote this post, I guess I will find out myself once I have posted it.

Also I have left out some things that don't apply yet to my character, such as a list of augments, so you may need to add some things for your character.

In the full character sheet I have spoiler blocks added to the end with more free-form details of contacts, homeworld / background, education / career, and connections.

I figured out how to avoid the need for the non-breaking spaces in the character sheet I posted above, so here is a version that only has normal spaces.

I am going to drop Streetwise 0 from Avi's skill set, the way he turned out I don't think he is really the streetwise type.

Thanks for the template @geoffenzed. It was very helpful.
Cassia basically has a gun, a ship, PTSD, and that’s it. I’m not sure how @Esidrix feels about her having access to a scout ship - I can see how that would be something a DM might not want a player to have from the jump. I’m totally cool with re-rolling that benefit.

@RogertheShrubber Cassia and Avi don't have to both take the same skill from their connetion event, in case that is why you chose Broker as well. No problem if that is the skill you wanted for her though, she and Avi could work together on brokering tasks using the task chain rules.

I think Cas deserves a ship after what the Scout service put her through. It might be an old ship with some things that need fixing, or it might not be available right away, we'll have to see what our situation turns out to be by the time we all meet,

If she was looking for crew or passengers, or both, to make some desperately needed cash, say to pay docking charges or for repairs, then that might be the reason we all end up travelling together.

Oh, I thought we had to take the same skill for the connection. If we each can take different ones then I think I’d go with the related skill Admin which is described as "… tracking inventories, and ship manifests…" Maybe, Cassia learned the admin skill while filling out/amending Avi’s ship’s manifest to account for (or hide) her presence on the merchant ship?

In regards to the scout ship, I imagine it’s got to be an old well traveled model. The scout service saved on paying the removal and disposal fee by signing it over to Cassia - not to mention part of the agreement is that they can still call on its use for future Scout related endeavors.
The ship systems are probably in a state of near constant disrepair. I wouldn’t be surprised if Cassia and Avi reunited at a soup kitchen and she offered him a free bunk in exchange for help maintaining the life support and assisting her with any number of mechanical issues. She still has the very pressing problem of affording docking fees and paying to run the ship. Maybe, she’s sought out Zeke to see if any of his connections from his time as a diplomat need any transport services? They could all discuss their time in the Aga Lua conflict while wrenching in scout ship.